READING Pa. – For many, the end of Berks Arts this past summer meant the end of Reading Blues Fest. But not to Dave Kline.<\/p>\n
“When the leader falls, you need the next person to step up and carry the torch,” said Kline.<\/p>\n
Kline has been a part of the Berks blues scene for years.<\/p>\n
He said he couldn’t let something so special disappear.<\/p>\n
“I was going to do it Blues Fest before Berks Arts Council even decided to have a Blues Fest… We’re going to step in, we’re going to make this festival happen,” said Kline.<\/p>\n
Now he’s saving the festival, but with a psychedelic twist and a new name.<\/p>\n
The Busker Incognito Blues and Boogie Weekend.<\/p>\n
Named after his band, the fest will be November 19th to the 22nd at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Reading, with a loaded lineup and multiple performances each day.<\/p>\n
“Great set, great sound, great lights, great artists, great music with great food, great beverages at a ridiculously low price,” said Kline.<\/p>\n
Kline says you don’t even need a ticket to enjoy the festival, because seven of their ten performances will be free.<\/p>\n
“It’s very important to me to keep this festival accessible to everybody,” said Kline.<\/p>\n
Kline says keeping a celebration like this in Reading isn’t just important to music fans, but to the entire community<\/p>\n
“Anybody that’s rooted to the community understands that the community at large is better off with revenue coming in,” said Kline.<\/p>\n
Kline says despite all the hard work, being able to save such an important festival was worth all the blues.<\/p>\n
“It’s really neat to be able to bring this to Reading, to keep it in Reading, to rescue this festival,” said Kline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING Pa. – For many, the end of Berks Arts this past summer meant the end of Reading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[99017,120703,120705,524,120704,15425,22779,28,736,24246,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-291137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-arts","tag-blues-and-boogie-weekend","tag-busker-incognito","tag-community","tag-dave-kline","tag-live-music","tag-music-festival","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-blues-fest","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}